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Feb. 7, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 7, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
I'm 61 years old, and yesterday was a Monday.
It was not a national holiday, although it ought to be.
You realize how many hangovers there were yesterday morning and late nights after the Super.
It would ought to be, it ought to be a could we do the mixed minus and raise the feed from New York a bit?
There we go.
Um I was off yesterday, as you know, Mark Stein was here talking all about the Super Bowl.
Oh, he didn't talk about the Super Bowl.
Oh.
Did he know that there was a Super Bowl on Sunday?
All right.
Well, anyway, um I'm I was just I was telling uh somebody I'm 61 years old, and I felt like I was playing hooky.
Yes, sir, 61 years old.
I mean, I'm so used to working Monday through Friday, and you know, the only Mondays I take off are you know the three-day holidays that I remember.
And I just it's silly.
I mean, I felt like I'm my first job and I'm playing a hooky and I'm gonna get in trouble.
I'm looking out, I just it's weird.
Anyway, I'm glad to be back here, folks.
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Uh Catherine and I were at the Super Bowl, and as such, we didn't see any of the commercials.
And I have only seen a couple, I've not seen any of the Doritos commercials.
I've actually, to be true, I only saw the Eastwood commercial.
And I knew when I saw the Eastwood commercial that that all kinds of problems.
The Obama commercial, yeah, but Eastwood claims that he's not in a commercial for Obama.
I just looked at that and and um anyway, we've got our own version of it, but let's review for just a second.
No, no, no.
I'm gonna get to this Catholic church because this is big too effective.
In fact, folks, uh, let me let me tell you something.
Um don't be surprised if the regime uh reverses this.
There are, because there's I've heard that they're rethinking it.
That Obama might be rethinking this uh this this ban that he's put in effect on the uh on the Catholic church and and the schools and so forth.
And it could be true.
It could be true.
I mean, even Muslim clerics have come out against this decision.
If Muslim clerics have come out against this decision, and Obama will hear that.
Much more than he'll hear Catholics being upset about.
Upsetting Catholics was the point.
But the point is there are a lot of Catholics that vote Democrats, 70 million some odd, and this is obviously a bone that he's thrown to the base.
It's part of Obamacare.
And it goes back to uh didn't get much attention at all when Sibelius, back in February 2009.
Well, when this was first discussed, it didn't get um uh a whole lot of uh attention back then.
And what's happened since is that the uh the churches now have until August of 2013 to get right with Obama's law.
So that's safely after the elections.
Back on January 20th, Kathleen Sibelius announced that the Department of Health and Human Services had ruled in August that all government-funded service providers provide free contraceptive services, including uh morning after pills and surgical sterilizations.
When this thing first hit uh as part of Obamacare, it barely caused a ripple uh outside of the uh outside of Catholic Church, certainly nowhere near uh the ripple that has been caused.
Now, then the same announcement back on January 20th, she said she was gonna give the churches until August of 2013 to get right with the law, which is after the elections.
But what's happened here is that an uproar has taken place in a clear bid to please the base, and it's actually more than just pleasing the base.
This whole decision by Obama as part of health care is who he is.
The government telling everybody, including churches and church education institutions, schools, what they can And can't do.
It is hideous, but it's right there in front of everybody's face for them to now see.
Every day it seems, every week, there are more and more examples of the totalitarian nature of this administration of where its true desires are.
I also this morning I received a note that that was uh I must confess it was intriguing.
It was exciting.
Got a note from a guy who said, hey, Rush, you know, these January numbers, I spent a lot of time last week on the raw unemployment numbers.
Oh, speaking of that, if you were here last Friday and Thursday, you remember we we focused not on the 243,000 jobs that were gained or reportedly gained, but rather on the raw numbers, the two and a half million fewer jobs there were between December of last year, January of this year.
Just the raw numbers.
Two and a half million fewer jobs, and of that two and a half million, 1.2 million were simply erased by the government, simply erased.
They no longer exist.
The labor force participation rate.
And it looked two things happened today.
One is one is that there's a story, David Stockman tells a story that back in the Reagan years, an unemployment report came out, and Reagan saw a story in Human Events magazine about the same thing we were talking about Thursday and Friday, the raw numbers versus the seasonally adjusted numbers.
And the raw numbers jobs lost or gained, I forget which it was at this point in the Reagan administration differed dramatically from the seasonally adjusted numbers.
According to David Stockman, well, who tells the story that was actually human events, the magazine, Reagan saw the Human Events magazine story and at a meeting of his economic advisors said he wanted to focus on the raw numbers.
He said that's what we ought to be looking at here.
And according to David Stockman, Martin Feldstein, who was the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors at the time, panicked and said, No, you don't want to look at the raw numbers and did his best to talk Reagan out of that and looking at seasonally adjusting.
Now, the point of the story is that the raw numbers differ dramatically.
Every report from the seasonally adjusted numbers, and that the seasonal adjustment number has been devised as a way of softening the blow, mitigating the impact of the real unemployment news, and it's something that's been going on a long time.
And I wanted to stress last Thursday and Friday, this is not new to the Obama administration.
What I was confused about was the dramatic difference in losing two and a half million jobs from December to January, and having the government say, but with our statistical analysis and our seasonal adjustment, we've actually added 243,000.
So remembering all of that, I got a flash email today from a guy who said, Hey, Rush, hey, Rush, take a look at this.
And it was a piece from a financial advisor blogger by the name of Larry Levin or Levin.
I don't know how he pronounces it, L-E-V-I-N, and it was about withholding tax receipts collected by the government through 2011.
And there was also the note that I got said, and January's withholding numbers, the withholding taxes that were sent to Washington would be a great indication of employment, would it not?
Were also down.
I said, whoa, this could blow the lid if this is true.
But I, El Rushbo, do not ever trust anything that just comes in over the transit.
I do not trust anything, even from a single blogger or supposed financial whiz.
So I farmed this out to some people.
It took me about an hour to track all this down because I was in the midst of the rest of show prep, and I'm trying to tell people I want to look this up for me what I want, and it uh took a little bit longer.
But finally, found out this through the year 2011 and its fiscal year.
One of the points of confusion in the original email was the government fiscal year is not the calendar year.
The fiscal year begins in October.
So January begins the second quarter of the government fiscal year.
Well, I was concerned about the calendar year.
December last year, January to this year.
I wanted to see what the collection of withholding taxes was.
Well, um don't really have that data yet, but we did find out that during the course of 2011, that the withholding taxes, the employment taxes collected by the government, far lower than even the jobs numbers that were reported to have been lost.
You would figure that if you're losing jobs, the government's also losing revenue via withholding.
You'd also figure that if jobs are being created, as we're told that they were from December to January, that the government's withholding tax revenue would also go up.
So we're desperately here trying to find out what actually happened in January and withholding.
It looks like it is up.
But I'm not sure yet.
Still trying to track it down.
But we did find it through 2011.
It was in fact in fact that's not entirely true.
This is so intricately woven, this web of deceit that you could actually take these numbers if I wanted to, and I could show you where withholding numbers revenue is actually down a little bit for the information so far that we have for January.
Anyway, let's try to make some sense out of that as the uh as the program unfolds.
But regardless, the employment situation in the country is nowhere near as robust and rosy.
And in fact, one of the things you have to consider when looking at withholding tax revenue is what kind of jobs are being created.
If they're low-wage jobs, then of course the withholding number is going to be much less.
Uh tax receipts from withholding will be much less because the wages are much less.
It's all intricately woven, but even I, L. Rushball, failed to grasp this within the amount of allotted time I had during show prep.
We're still working on this because I want to get to the bottom of it.
I think I'm still struck by the difference in that raw number of two and a half million jobs lost, and the government telling us 243,000 were created.
The bottom line is this in a nutshell, the withholding tax receipts number doesn't line up with unemployment.
It doesn't line up.
The withholding doesn't line up with the employment numbers, or however you want to cast it as the unemployment numbers.
They just don't add up.
It's still very confusing.
And so games are being played.
It's an election year.
This Catholic church is the is the is the same thing.
And what Obama monkeying the numbers here, Jimmying around with things in an election year, designed to make things look better than they are, projected to be better than they are.
Um, knowing full well.
It's like, did you see the story?
All of a sudden I'm minding my own business, trying to do a little show prep on Sunday, and I'm reading a New York Post, and lo and behold, there's another Kennedy babe, JFK babe.
Out of the blue.
Rachel, you didn't know this.
Now Monica Lewinsky was 23.
This babe was 18 or 19.
JFK sees her somewhere.
It was Clinton Redux.
Of course, JFK did it first.
Actually, Clinton is JFK redux.
They bring the babe into the swimming pool.
JFK does the number in the swimming pool, invites her up to the residence when Jackie's not around, has her service, other members of his administration.
She falls in love even after she tells him she's getting married, he's still at, well, no big deal to me.
And this goes on up until a week prior to his assassination.
So it's another Kennedy babe.
And I got I got to thinking the um I know what Democrat sex doesn't matter, especially when it doesn't detract from your job.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But regardless, it only matters in Newt, for example, which frankly, a lot of people have trouble believing those stories.
Um, JFK, you believe it.
A lot of people, Newt, really?
Okay.
Must be something we don't know.
Anyway, um, the media knew all this back then.
This is the this is what happens when the media is having an affair with a politician.
When the media is having an affair with a candidate, when the media is having an affair with an elected official, this is what happens.
This this whole Kennedy thing, everybody back then knew it, but there was no reporting of it.
It's Camelot.
Uh, and and all of this.
So, uh that sets a table, although there's far more than that to go on, we're just barely scratching the surface.
Take a brief break.
We'll come back, listen to excerpts.
That was two minute Chrysler ad halftime at the Super Bowl.
Uh what?
Oh, the Giselle thing.
Um.
Uh.
I know I know we have that in the Soundbite roster.
It happened about five feet from where I was.
Or where we were during the game yesterday.
Fully aware of this.
Anyway, as I say, folks, we've barely uh we barely scratched the surface as they have brief time out.
We'll do that.
We'll come back and continue.
By the way, I'm Rush Limbaugh, in case you didn't know that, or you do.
Uh, telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882.
Do not go away, be right back.
Already having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I've had two people email me recently calling Clint Eastwood Eastman.
Clint, you gotta do something.
They think you're related to a film company here.
Uh Eastman instead of Eastwood.
Anyway, I think Eastwood got scammed.
I I think he got scammed and roped into doing something he thought was patriotic.
Uh, and ended up uh being played.
I do.
Now, about Giselle Bunchin, folks, Catherine tells me I dropped the ball all the time.
I didn't see anything really different or unique uh in this.
When you're like me and you're told every day you're dropping the ball on things, so what?
It happens.
But people want to know my thoughts on this.
I've got a number of emails, and I'll share them with you as the program unfolds, but I do want to get some some I do think this Brady thing, what's happening to Tom Brady is a great illustration of what happens when when you well, not let, but when the media has a role in defining your personality, when the media has a role in uh defining your image, then the media can shatter it.
Then the media can tear it apart.
That's it.
This is um, I think a great illustration.
The old saying, if the media can make you, the media can break you.
This is why, in my case, the media has had nothing to do with establishing any aspect of me.
I don't have a PR agent.
I don't massage the media.
I don't do any, so the media try as they might cannot break me.
They've tried and they continue to try.
But celebrities, mainly Hollywood people, mainly from the entertainment field, who are to in everything you know about them is not because you know them, not because of a connection that they have with you, it's because of what you read about them or what you see about them.
those celebrities and athletes are vulnerable as they can be.
You hear about, I'll illustrate it this way.
One of the criticisms of Mitt Romney is that he doesn't connect with people.
Now, what's that?
What is connecting with voters?
It means that voters have no personal relationship with him.
He hasn't revealed himself personally, he hasn't, he doesn't found a way uh to get beyond just being a face and a voice on television.
So it's left to the media to define him for people.
Now, some say that this ability to connect is innate, and that you either have it or you don't have it.
Let me illustrate it this way.
This is where I first learned about it, by the way.
And you know, I don't like talking about myself.
You know, I'm very uncomfortable with that.
But I must in this instance.
1992, coming home from Houston, the Republican convention.
I happen to be on a flight with Peter Jennings, ABC World News Tonight, and I think Ed Bradley.
I don't remember.
Might have been LaGuardia.
Anyway, we're all a baggage claim to get the bags.
And I was shocked at the number of people who came up to me and just said hi and started talking to me as though they knew me.
And they did.
They were listeners, and they started talking.
They all want to tell me how long they'd been listening.
It still happens to this day.
Throughout the weekend in Indianapolis.
Ran into all kinds of people.
And the first thing I see, yeah, I've been listening to you since 1989 or 1992.
Everybody at Baggage Claim knew who Peter Jennings was, but nobody went up to talk to him.
They stared.
They pointed.
Ooh, there's Peter Jennings.
Ooh, there's Ed Brad.
But nobody went up to say hi.
It was almost like he was distant, or maybe above, but there wasn't a connection there.
He was a newsreader.
He's a guy everybody recognizing, read the news on TV, but nobody knew anything about him.
And of course, why would they?
Peter Jennings never talked about himself.
He never shared any of himself with him on the news.
That's not what his job was.
But of course, me, radio program, that's largely what this is.
And I think it's the same thing with athletes.
We all see them on television.
We all know who they are.
We know them and have our thoughts of them based on their performance.
And their talents and their abilities.
And of course, those are quite rare.
And as such, there's awe for that.
But we don't really know who they are in most cases.
The media fills that in.
So when the media fills it in, it's up to whether they like the guy.
Whether they don't like the guy, whether they like the guy's wife or don't like the guy's wife.
Then when something goes wrong and the media turns, there's nothing to counter it.
That's why I was in the media can't break you if they haven't made you.
So I think that that's a little bit of what Tom Brady is experiencing right now.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
Doesn't matter where I'm as long as I'm here, doesn't matter where here is.
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We have we have uh chopped up the uh the Clint Eastman uh PSA.
Why would they be calling him Eastman on purpose?
Why would people telling me about this calling him gets going?
I think they're using Apples.
I think this autocorrect is changing Eastwood to Eastman.
Because these people know that it's Eastwood.
It is Eastwood, right?
I'm not.
By the way, did you snurd me?
Did you find any evidence of that ad with the Chinese guy you were telling me about?
Because I don't remember that ad.
And I uh if I don't remember it, I can't talk about it.
Anyway, we've chopped up the Clint Eastwood, and by the way, a two-minute commercial.
It's not a commercial, it's a PSA.
And it's for Chrysler, and this was uh last night, Sunday night, on the Super Bowl during halftime.
It's halftime in America, too.
People are out of work and they're hurting, and they're all wondering what they're gonna do to make a comeback.
Yeah.
And we're all scared because this isn't a game.
That's right.
The people of Detroit know a little something about this.
Yeah.
They almost lost everything.
Yeah, they did.
But we all pulled together.
Now Motor City is fighting again.
Now I'm sure you've heard by now that they didn't film any of this commercial in Detroit.
They filmed it in New Orleans and Los Angeles.
Why do that?
You want to show Detroit rebounding, go there.
How do you show that anyway?
Anyway, that's that's the first bit of it.
Here's a little bit more from the same man.
I've seen a lot of tough errors, a lot of downturns in my life, times when we didn't understand each other.
Seems that we've lost our heart at times.
The fog of division, discord, and blame.
Made it hard to see what lies ahead.
But after those trials, we all rallied around what was right and acted as one.
Because that's what we do.
We find a way through tough times, and if we can't find a way, then we'll make one.
All that matters now is what's ahead.
How do we come from behind?
How do we come together?
And how do we win?
puke city.
Detroit showing us it can be done.
And what's true about them is true about all of us.
This country can't be knocked out with one punch.
We get right back up again, and when we do, the world's gonna hear the roar of our engines.
Yeah, it's halftime America.
And our second half's about to begin.
Jay Leno had the best spin on this.
Jay Leno had the best line.
Last night, Jay Leno said maybe halftime in America, but China's got the ball, and we're down by 16 trillion.
I can't think of a better way of putting it.
Jay Leno.
So that's that's Clint Eastwood.
By the way, they didn't film this in Detroit.
You want to know why?
Because of the weather.
They go where it's cheaper.
It's always cheaper in a good weather location.
A bad weather location's risky, you might have to delay production, which costs a lot of money.
Well, after I heard that, that's not what I explained.
When somebody tells me that Clint Eastwood did a halftime commercial for Chrysler, I expect it to be something like this.
It's halftime.
Both teams are in their locker rooms, getting ready to win the first four years or a second term.
It's halftime in America, too.
People are out of work and they're hurting.
And they're all wondering what Obama's going to do to them next.
And they're scared because he thinks this is a game.
The people of Detroit know something about him.
From the bondholders who were told to roll over when TM went under to the guys on the line who were forced to build an electric car to save the world that nobody on earth wants.
I've seen a lot of tough downturns in my life.
A lot of nasty primaries, too.
But all that matters now is that we come together as one great nation and kick his skinny butt back to Chicago.
This country can't be knocked out by one punk.
We'll get right back up again.
And when we do, Obama's going to hear the roar of our engines.
Yeah.
It's halftime, America.
Are you ready to win?
That's the Clint Eastwood ad that I would expect to hear at halftime if somebody tells me that there was one.
This ad, obviously, that Eastwood did.
I'm just gonna give him the benefit of the doubt and suggest he got suckered into this.
All this talk of uh working together and that's always what people say when the Democrats are about to get shellacked.
When the Democrats are about to get creamed, when the Democrats are on the ropes, time out, time out, time out, we gotta stop the criticism, we gotta stop all the partisanship, time out, time out.
We gotta we gotta all start working together.
Of course, that means Republicans need to shut up.
Conservatives need to shut up.
Stop being critical.
They gotta all come together now.
We can't change horses here in the middle of the stream.
Obama's policy's finally starting to work.
Doesn't matter who gets screwed, doesn't matter who got screwed.
The only thing missing was go ahead.
Make my halftime.
Now I just think this is uh so predictable and so typical.
Got to come together.
Can't tell you the number of people that approach me now that say the same thing.
Last December, a friend of mine requested to come to my house and talk to me for two hours about this.
Friend from out of town.
I'm really worried about America.
Russia just gotta find some way to come together.
We've gotta start finding a way to get along.
I said, Well, I appreciate what you're saying.
I know.
I'm gonna tell you that what we need to do.
We need to all come together and stop liberalism.
And that means stopping liberals.
That's Barack Obama or Kathleen Sabilius or Harry Reid or John Kerry, I don't care.
They need to be stopped.
They are the ones.
There's not, we don't have much in common with them.
There isn't a whole lot of common ground between the two sides, the two primary sides that disagree here.
The Obama position is pretty radical.
And because of the Obama position.
Because of where the Democrat Party is today, it could be argued that any opposition to it also is radical.
Not that it's radical in and of itself, but appears to be simply because it's so different.
But the people on the opposite side of Obama don't have ill will toward the country.
We don't have a grand design to transform it.
The things that we think are wrong with it are not intrinsic.
They're not because of the way the country was founded and put together.
What's wrong with the country is things that have been done to it in the name of liberalism or progressivism by people like Obama, by people like Bill Clinton, by people like Nancy Pelosi?
The list is long.
It's not just Obama, but he's at the top of the totem pole on all of this.
And there's not a whole lot of common ground there.
They we there are two competing versions of America.
I don't know when it last was.
I'm sure there was a time in the modern era where it could be said that the Democrat Party and the Republican Party shared a few common objectives.
National defense the country remaining a superpower because it's thought that that was good for the world, that America is the solution to the world's problems, but that doesn't even exist on the left anymore.
From Obama on down, America's the problem in the world.
America is the reason the world is in its current state of unrest.
America has caused this with its imperialism, its massive superpower status, it's military that's run all over the earth conquering it, stealing resources from other peoples and other nations and bringing them back home so that we can have lives of relative luxury compared to the rest of the world.
And it's not that we did anything differently.
It's not that we're more creative or have more freedom.
It's not that our constitution, a declaration rather of independence nominal documents, promote the concept of the pursuit of happiness.
No, it's not because it's because we're evil people.
It's because we are put together with evil intent.
We have a slave past, racist sex is big and homophobes, we've got human rights violators all over the place.
And those are the people, according to Obama, who built the nation.
The founders are no different than the current modern day critics.
Now, where is the common ground with that?
There's not a sliver of that that I agree with.
I don't agree that the founding of this country was immoral or unjust.
I think it's one of the most miraculous things that's happened in human history.
I believe the founding of the country was blessed by God because it is so indicated in our founding documents.
Those are fighting words to the Democrat Party today.
Those are fighting words to progressives.
Where's the common ground?
Where's all this talk about coming together and acting as one?
Mr. Limbaugh, well, Mr. Eathwood meant that was the toy.
Well, we'll go the Nathaneth at war.
Yeah, right.
You guys really came together during the Iraq War.
You really joined with the effort to defeat Al Qaeda and others in Iraq.
You guys on the left were among the obstacles this country were fighting.
All these allegations about the Marines of Hadith and whatever atrocious acts were alleged by the military.
A Democrat Party agreed with them, believed every one of them, from Abu Grab to you name it, wanted war crimes, trials, wanted Bush and Rove and people frog marched out of the White House.
There wasn't any coming together.
Subprime mortgage crisis.
Who caused it?
The Democrat Party caused that with a silly notion that there's this concept of affordable, affordable housing, and everybody should and could have the same kind of home as everybody else.
Obamacare, another failed flawed premise behind the construction and the writing of the whole thing.
And with every major piece of liberalism that's found its way to legislation, you find abject failure.
From the war on poverty to dealing with poverty to dealing with any notion of our safety net, it's an absolute disaster.
I don't know where the common ground is.
I don't know where there is to agree with them.
Isn't this in fact the problem that we conservatives have with the Republican establishment?
We've got people that we think are blind bats who disagree with us and think there is a reason to cross the aisle and work with the other side.
We don't see it.
We want to beat them.
It's politics.
We want to beat them big.
We want landslide victories.
We want them rendered electorally the minority they are proportionately.
In terms of the number of people in this country who are actually progressive and liberal, no more than 25%, maybe 30% at tops.
We want that represented in the number of elections they win.
The number of representatives they have in Congress.
That's what we're after.
political victory that represents proportionately the population of the country, the thinking of the country.
Now, we've got an administration, a regime, a Democrat Party, which must and does govern against the will of the people in order to achieve its objectives.
And they're perfectly happy to do so.
And they celebrate when they're victorious.
Govern against the will of the people.
Now, I don't I don't have anything in common with those people.
I don't know where I'm supposed to give up what I believe in and agree with them about when they must govern against the will of the people.
And finally, how come we're the ones that always have to do the crossing of the aisle?
And how come we're the ones, the only ones who have to set aside our core beliefs.
Why is it never said that Obama's gonna have to back down or that the Democrats at large are going to have to compromise on what they want.
Brief timeout.
We'll be back and continue much more right after this.
Are we ready to resume programming?
All right, we are back, Rush Lindball, behind this.
The golden EIB microphone.
Serving humanity.
Simply by showing up.
We start uh on the phones in Iowa, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with Eric.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Yes, that's Rush.
Yes, it is.
How are you doing, sir?
This is uh Eric from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
How are you doing today?
Very well, sir.
Thanks very much.
Uh, just wanted to comment on that uh on that parody with the Clint Eastwood.
When I heard that, that keep chills down my back.
I mean, that is something else.
That is fantastic.
That really set a nice tone the way with the top gun sound at the end.
That was it was well done.
Well, thank you.
I know.
And this is exactly what we expected.
Well, I heard there was a Clint Eastwood uh Super Bowl lad.
This is what I thought it would be.
Grab it again, Mike.
I want to call for it here just again.
Um this um we need to have something like this ready to go next August, September college football kicks up.
There are how many halftimes are there going to be starting next football season prior to the election, where this could run.
It's halftime.
Both teams are in their locker rooms, getting ready to win the first four years or second term.
It's halftime in America, too.
People are out of work and they're hurting, and they're all wondering what Obama's going to do to them next.
And they're scared because he thinks this is a game.
The people of Detroit know something about him.
From the bondholders who are told to roll over when TM went under to the guys on the line who are forced to build an electric car to save the world that nobody on earth wants.
I've seen a lot of tough downturns in my life.
A lot of nasty primaries, too.
But all that matters now is that we come together as one great nation and kick his skinny butt.
Back to Chicago.
This country can't be knocked out by one punk.
We'll get right back up again.
And when we do, Obama's going to hear the roar of our engines.
Yeah.
It's halftime, America.
Are you ready to win?
Go ahead.
Make my half time.
And I'm sure we'll be uh receiving countless other requests to air this in the future, even later on in today's program, which we will do.
This is Steven in New Orleans.
Stephen, thank you for calling.
Great to have you on a Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Mr. Limbaugh, it is an honor.
Um, well, you know, when I when I first heard the ad, I didn't really give him a lot of thought.
I was thinking, well, it's a nice message.
But hang on a minute.
I'm sure what did you think the message was?
Remember, it's an ad for now.
I haven't I've I've seen excerpts.
The close-up of Eastwood.
I'm told it's a Chrysler.
What what was there what was there about Chrysler in this ad?
Well you know, and I'm I'm I've looked at it and listened to it.
And every now and then you can get a clip, a glimpse of a Chrysler product.
Veg very quickly, what was the message to you?
To me, at first, you know, it was, you know, we're coming back, but the more I listened to it, the more it was political.
Yep.
Okay, that's probably what was desired by the producer.
Back after this.
Where does the time go?
I can't believe the first hour already over in the can on the way over to the warehouse, housing artifacts for the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum.
By the way, the virtual version of the Rush Limbaugh Broadcast Museum is up and running at Rush Limbaugh.com.
It's amazing if you haven't seen it and taken a tour.
Sit tight.
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